Bridging the gap to a new home

I apologize for the long hiatus. On August 8 I moved 950 miles from Emporia, Kansas to Kent, Ohio on a quest to start a new career as a professor in Library and Information Science at Kent State University. I have lived in Kansas for the past 24 years and 35 of the past 38 so this is a big change, full of many new experiences intensified by the fact that I am here by myself. To say that it has been a learning experience is a big understatement.

There have been several gaps encountered along the way:

• The confusion of finding a place to live from a distance
• The angst of living alone for the first time ever in my life
• The confusion of a new geographical environment
• The riddles of a new occupation in a new working culture
• The muddles of being the new member of an established community

There have been episodes of high anxiety, second-guessing, and emotional unsettledness, but the good news is that a little over a week ago, while riding my bike home from work, it occurred to me that this is home. In the next few weeks I will report on the ways by which I arrived at this outcome in terms of Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology. 

Please stay tuned.